Regardless of how good you are
in whatever it is you do,
you might even be the best in the world;
Always seek to become
better than your former self.
The real competition
is not against others;
It is against yourself!
Can you explain what he means by
"Are you a different animal and the same beast"?
The smart ones would understand this.
You are welcome ๐ฅ
Happy New week guys
#forever_in_profit๐ฅ
There are things I will never understand, no matter how hard I try.
Take airport regulations, for example.
Airport officials frown at passengers travelling with perfumes. If they find certain quantities in your luggage during security checks, they often confiscate them.
But the moment you pass through security and enter the departure lounge, you will find shops selling those same perfumes.
You can walk into one of those shops, buy an entire bag of perfumes, and proceed to board your flight with them.
So, essentially, you are telling passengers that certain perfumes cannot pass through airport security, but allowing those same products to be sold at the door of the plane. Does that make sense?
How about Airplane Mode and the insistence by some flight attendants that every mobile device must be completely switched off during takeoff and landing?
On my last flight from Lagos, a flight attendant approached me and asked me to switch off my phone.
I politely explained that my phone was already on Airplane Mode.
She insisted that I switch it off completely.
So, I asked her whether she understood the reason behind the instruction she was so determined to enforce.
From her response, I was heartbroken. She had no understanding of the theory behind the rule she was enforcing.
One of the reasons airlines restrict the use of electronic devices during certain phases of flight is to minimise potential interference from radio transmissions.
And what exactly is Airplane Mode designed to do?
Disable the phoneโs cellular radio transmissions.
The rule to switch off mobile phones were made when phones had no Airplane Mode features. The Airplane Mode features were introduced to mobile devices to help passengers use their phones while flying. Even the name alone explains this.
On some flights, the announcement is straightforward: switch off your electronic devices or put them on Airplane Mode.
On many local flights in Nigeria, however, some flight attendants insist on complete shutdowns without being able to explain why Airplane Mode is supposedly insufficient.
And this is where my problem lies.
Not necessarily with the rules, but with our relationship with rules.
We have become so accustomed to receiving instructions, memorising them, repeating them and enforcing them that we sometimes forget the most important question:
WHY?
A person can spend ten years enforcing a rule without ever understanding the problem that rule was created to solve.
And when you ask questions, they interpret your curiosity as disobedience.
Perhaps one of our biggest problems as a society is that we have trained too many people to obey instructions and too few to understand them.
We have perfected the art of following procedures without questioning their purpose.
Sometimes, the people enforcing the rules are even more confused than the people being forced to obey them.
Another very useless practice is the checking of car trunks at hotels and some other public places. What are they always looking for? Just open and close to fulfill all righteousness. There are places in a car that dangerous weapons can be hidden.
-KAA
#kaa_truths
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Please watch and share with anyone who might need to see it.
But should I buy the product to see what it's like? Reply "yes" or "no" in the comments.
Since I woke up this morning, I've taken my time to go through the comments, quotes, and advice people have shared. Trust me, I'm going to take every single piece of advice seriously. However, there's one advice I will not take, and that's people telling me to stay away from politics and focus solely on my business.
I think I responded to someone's comment suggesting that we should vote for Peter Obi, and I noticed that quite a number of people dragged me for it. But honestly, why should I be told not to talk about politics and just concentrate on my business? Who do you think put me in the situation I'm currently in? Is it not the government? I shouldn't talk about politics, but politics is talking about me. Do you understand how badly government policies have affected my business and my livelihood?
I'm genuinely grateful to everyone who came through for me, but the truth is, I'm still going to bear losses. And who created the economic conditions that contributed to those losses? The government.
Let me also address those who believe I made a financial mistake by opening the shop in the first place. Yes, perhaps there were things I could have done differently, but let me give you some context. My shop is strategically located between two major universities in Port Harcourt: the University of Science and Technology (UST) and Ignatius Ajuru University. These institutions have thousands of students. Do you honestly think these students don't want cookies? Why do you think I chose that location in the first place? The idea was simple: students from both universities would make up a significant part of my customer base.
Interestingly, since this whole support campaign started, a good number of the people who have shown up to support me are students from these same universities. They have always been my target audience. But the problem is that the economy has destroyed their purchasing power. These students, who ordinarily would patronise my business, are now more concerned about paying school fees, feeding themselves, and meeting their basic needs.
And somehow, I'm being told not to talk about politics?
You're telling me to focus on my business, post my products, and leave politics alone. But why can't I do both? Why can't I promote my business and also speak about the political leadership and candidate I believe can bring about the change we desperately need? Why shouldn't I advocate for someone I believe can help change the circumstances that have made running a small business this difficult?
I was fortunate that my situation gained attention and people rallied around me. But what happens the next time? Will I have to depend on a viral post before I can make meaningful sales? Is that how a business should survive? Absolutely not.
I appreciate every single person who has supported me, advised me, encouraged me, and shown me love. I will take the business advice, learn from my mistakes, and make better decisions going forward.
But please, don't tell me to stop talking about politics. The economy is affecting my business. Government policies are affecting my customers. The political decisions being made in this country have direct consequences on my livelihood.
I cannot separate my business struggles from the politics and economic realities that contribute to them. I have every right to speak about both.
PLEASE VOTE PETER OBI!!! โ๏ธ
Have you ever wondered why you have to buy data on your home router and also buy a mobile data for when you are not at home?
Let me explain it better.
You pay for data on your home router. You step out of the house and it is useless to you.
So you buy a second bundle for your phone. Same network. Same towers. Same company collecting your money twice.
So, you have two separate data bundles with expiry dates on them but you can only use one at a time. If you are at home or office, the mobile data will be wasting away. If you are away from the office and home, the router bundle with an expiry date on it will be wasting away.
If you are only at home at night, when you do the maths, you realize that you only get to use the bundle 15 days in a month but you think you are enjoying unlimited one month broadband data.
Have you ever wondered why, in 2026, it has to be this way?
It does not. It is a business decision, not a technical limitation.
Letโs look at what operators did over a decade ago in other countries.
PHILIPPINES (2016): PLDT launched a home broadband plan with 50GB a month, of which 6GB could be shared with up to four mobile lines and used outside the home. One subscription. One bill. They called it the country's first plan that cuts across home and mobile broadband. In simple terms. PLDT made it possible for people to use the same data bundle they have at home on their mobile devices even when they are not at home.
CZECH REPUBLIC (2014): T-Mobile launched "Shared Internet" in February 2014. One data allowance shared between a customer's phone and a second device, with a separate data SIM for 99 Czech koruna a month, no new contract, same speed as the main SIM. If the shared data ran out, you topped up through the main SIM. By August 2014 they went further: up to five family members could share one data allowance, with up to five extra data SIMs for tablets and laptops on top.
In USA, UK, Australia, etc. the madness we allow here do not exist. AT&T launched it Mobile Share in the United States in 2012. You pick one monthly broadband data allowance and share it across 10 devices regardless of where you are in the country.
O2 launched its Sharer Plan and Family Sharer Plan in 2014 in UK.
Optus did the same in AUSTRALIA.
These are all operators in serious countries making efforts to be fair to their customers and this has been on since 12 to 14 years ago.
So the technology exists. The billing systems exist. Customers elsewhere have been using it.
Why then are Nigerians quiet about it?
For the same reason nobody questioned data expiry for years.
People believe it cannot work any other way.
We were told data must expire, so we accepted it. We were told home data stays at home, so we accepted that too. Nobody asked the company to explain why, so the answer became "that is just how it works."
It is not how it works. It is how it is sold.
Every unquestioned rule you live with is a rule someone chose.
Start asking why.
KAA
#kaa_truths
As a software engineer building financial applications, one thing you need to understand is that when a user clicks โDelete Accountโ, you canโt always just delete everything from your database.
There are data privacy rights to respect, but there are also legal obligations to fulfil.
Letโs talk about it.